vasarium

== Latin == === Etymology === From vās (“vessel, instrument, equipment”) + -ārium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [waːˈsaː.ri.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [vaˈs̬aː.ri.um] === Noun === vāsārium n (genitive vāsāriī or vāsārī); second declension An allowance paid to provincial governors for domestic establishment costs such as equipment, furniture, or other outfit (including travel and accommodation costs). A place where documents are kept, a record office, an archive. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “vasarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vasarium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.